The Irish standard., 1887-01-15

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Guiding prayers being said the meeting
adjourned. Thus terminated one of the
greatest days in the history of Catholic
societies in Minneapolis.
TEMPERANCE EXPOUNDED.
The Able and Eloquent Address Of Rev.
Father Oleary, Of Kenosha, at Har-
monia Hall.
| Harmonic Hall was filled on last We'd
nesday evening to hear the address OF
Rev. Father Cleary, Of Wisconsin, Pres
ident Of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of America, on Temperance. The
meeting was presided over by State
President Corrigan, and the following
representatives of the cause of temper
ance occupied seats on the platform:
Rev. Fathers McGolrjck, O'Rielly, Cor
bett, Tracy and Dagnault, Of Minneapo-
lis. Father Kane, Of st Thomas Semin-
ary and the officers OF the different tenn
perence organizations of Minneapolis
and st. Paul. -.
The Crusaders of St. Paul, fifty strong,
headed by President J. F. Carrere, were
met at the Union Depot by q uniformed
detachment of sixteen men from the
Minneapolis Crusaders, headed by the
l.. P; Plummer drum corps, and es-
corted to the hall.
The first speaker was Rev. Father
Kane, who spoke for five minutes Be-
fore introducing Rev. Father Cleary,
the speaker of the evening, the chair
man made short but pointed temper.
ance speech, referring to the work done
by the crusade societies. He then in.
troduced Father Cleary as President ol
the Catholic Total Abstinence Union o1
America, and one Of the strongest advo.
Gates of temperance in the country. On
coming forward, Father Cleary was
greeted with applause, and began his
lecture by congratulating the societies
Of the city on the good work that had
been done here towards making total
abstinence an established and universal
principle, which he said was the aim ot
the Catholic total abstinence societies.
He first proved the folly Of intemper-
ance by religion, saying that each man
has an immortal soul. Drunkenness robs
him of reason and intelligence, enslaves
his will and robs him OF his manhood
He is lost, and his soul is lost with him.
Men consider that they are safe in drink
ing moderately; but the fact remains
that thousands of drun}ards each year
go down to death, and as many thousand
once moderate drinkers take their
places. The speaker asked each TO
place his dependence on God, to be
good Catholics and abstinence would
follow.
In the second place, he brought COM
mon sense to prove the folly of intem-
perence by showing that there never
was an instance where any one was
benefited by Incorporate drinking
The fact that men will spend their
hard-earned wages at a bar is an out
rage on common sense, as is also the
opinion that man may deprive himself
with drink of the use of his faculties be-
fore he can be sociable. AS the third
and last point, the speaker showed the
folly of intemperance by scientific OBJ
servation of it's effect upon the system.
After Father Cleary's address, Rev.
Father McGolrick delivered few re-
marks, in which he took occasion to pay
high tribute to the work done by the
members Of the Father Mathew socie-
ties in the Twin Cities. and remarked,
ssIf it we're not for the Father Mathew
men, we would not have our CRU
saders."
Following Father McGolrick's ad:
dress. President Corrigan spoke fol
some minutes on the work that was
being done in the cause Of temperance,
after which the meeting adjourned.